title: [The aging of language].
abstract: Language does not age as long as the cerebral structures which keep it functioning are normal. But one of the vicissitudes of old age is a weakening of linguistic and intellectual abilities caused by the progressive alterations of nervous functions. Language ailment is then rarely isolated but it belongs to a global disorganizing of cerebral functions.
authors.affiliation: Neurologue, Linguiste, Hôpital E. Roux, Limeil-Brevannes, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Metellus
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Des Noettes Gisquet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Secq
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D008037:Linguistics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013060:Speech
vernacular_title: Le vieillissement du langage.